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Re: How to delete a file without owner and group?


On 3/1/2010 10:48 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
I have a file that doesn't have owner and group and hence I can not
delete it. Could somebody let me know how to delete it?

office@office-PC /tmp
$ ll
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 0 2009-11-28 10:12 foo.sh

office@office-PC /tmp
$ chown office foo.sh
chown: changing ownership of `foo.sh': Permission denied

office@office-PC /tmp
$ rm foo.sh
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `foo.sh'? y
rm: cannot remove `foo.sh': Permission denied

Does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids> answer your question?

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